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Plot Summary:
An ageing wrestler and circus strongman is put in an institution located somewhere in a world of its own.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Finland
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Just Follow Law (2007)
Plot Summary:
A freak accident causes a blue collar worker (Gurmit Singh) and his supervisor (Fann Wong) to swap souls.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 374
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Singapore
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags:
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The First Day of my Life (2023)
Plot Summary:
In the exact moment they're hitting rock bottom, four strangers are visited by a mysterious man who gifts them a week to see how the world would be without them.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags:
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Return ticket (1997)
Plot Summary:
Five old men and a kid are travelling in a train's cabin without purpose. They travel because it's free and they don't have another place to stay. From their conversations we learn the tragedies of their lives. Also the hidden interlockings of their faith will out slowly.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Day of the Idiots (1981)
Plot Summary:
In this non-story of the mentally and emotionally impaired inhabitants of a clinic for the insane, the medical profession along with humanity is distorted into a long, filmic exhibition of sado-masochism, urination, and ample nudity for its own sake. Critics that support the avant-garde might feel that the lack of apparent purpose in each "idiot's" (the title is "Day of the Idiots') physical and emotional problems is a form of high art. The viewers will have to decide for themselves.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 266
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: weird
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Welcome to the Quiet Room (2007)
Plot Summary:
28 year old freelance writer Sakura Asuka (Yuki Uchida) wakes up tied in a white room. The white room is a protected room located in an isolated ward of a psychiatric hospital. Sakura first became unconscious because of heavy alcohol use and a druge overdose. She’s confined in the single room because of her high risk of committing suicide. Sakura tried to talk to the nurses and doctors but they didn’t listen to her. Under the circumstances another patient Miki (Yu Aoi), who suffers from an eating disorder, leads her to understand the unknown world. But, Sakura is looking for the way to get back to the real world as soon as possible.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 708
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags:
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Our Father... (1993)
Plot Summary:
A film by Veikko Aaltonen.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Dalkeith (2001)
Plot Summary:
Tells the true story of the residents at Dalkeith Residential Home who sit around every day just waiting to die until staff buy them a greyhound. Naming the dog Dalkeith after the home, they discover she is a phenomenal runner and she is soon entered into the greyhound races. Soon residents are betting on the outcome of the races, and they are given a new reason to live. But the board of trustees learn what is going on, through the disgruntled daughter of one of the residents, and heavily handedly put an end to the fun and games. After the board's intervention the residents sink into a new form of despair as life becomes even duller and more boring than before. That is until the aloof pensioner, played by Ray Barrett, reveals he was once a high profile barrister and challenges the decision in court.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Hustlers (2010)
Plot Summary:
The director Lauri Nurkse tells that Veijarit is a film about "arjensietokyvyttömyys" (= inability to tolerate everyday life) and about the Peter Pan complex. The main actor Mikko Leppilampi says it's about "kolkyttoistavuotiaat" (= thirtyeenagers = people of thirty behaving like teenagers). An immediate reference point is the commedia all'italiana of the 1950s and the 1960s, the black comedy often exposing the infantile stage of development of the Italian male. Saku and Ässä are anti-heroes, but we never fail to sense the humanity behind their shallow and crazy ways. Veijarit is a satire and a parody of a superficial way of life, but there is a vitality in the protagonists that we feel can lead them to a more meaningful stage of existence after the prolonged youth full of sound and fury. There is a motif of transcendence in the imagery of flying: will the balloons carry me or will they burst.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 979
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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The Matriarch (2007)
Plot Summary:
Martta and Otto are a pair of traveling tailors who claim to be bastard descendents of the Romanovs and wander from town to town in Finland seeking work, accompanied by their two half-witted adult sons, Hippo , Repe and equally silly son-in-law Ventti. The family occasionally turns to crime when they can't quite make ends meet, and the boys begin turning to violence with greater frequency when Otto weakens and Martta becomes the head of the family business. Their fortunes take an unexpected turn when the brothers assault and abduct a man they call Kaspar, who becomes the family's sidekick in their travels. Despite Kaspar's inability to speak, he attracts Martha's youngest daughter, an attractive young woman named Lara, but the family is in disarray when a long-lost half-brother, Laszlo, suddenly re-emerges and tries to wrest control of the clan away from his mother.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 780
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: family saga, road movie, touching, captivating
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Overseas and Under Your Skin (2009)
Plot Summary:
Ida is a woman who was adopted to Finland from Africa as a child. Ida is an unemployed seamstress approaching her thirties and still lives at home with her activist mother Kati. Kati wants to fix her daughter's life and offers her a job at her work. Encouraged by her new friend Ville, Ida, however, sets out for Berlin in order to find a job and to prove to her mother that she can manage on her own. Meanwhile, Kati has been told that she is seriously ill, but she does not want to mention it to Ida in fear of standing in the way of her daughter's struggle for independence. Ida wants to have a life of her own, but what will she have left at the end of the day?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 191
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland, Germany
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Playing Solo (2007)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 826
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Head Full of Honey (2018)
Plot Summary:
A young girl tries to help her grandfather, who is suffering from Alzheimer’s, navigate his increasing forgetfulness, and ends up going on a remarkable adventure with him.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: touching, thought provoking, sincere, funny, sad, inspirational, depressing, comedy drama, family comedy
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Body/Antibody (2007)
Plot Summary:
Kip Polyard is an obsessive-compulsive shut-in whose antiseptic world is invaded by Celine, the beautiful seductress who moves in next door to Kip's rent-controlled Manhattan apartment. Kip and Celine begin a tentative love affair that turns passionate and then deadly, as Celine's secrets turn Kip's perfectly organized life upside-down.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, neo noir, independent film
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The Howling Miller (1982)
Plot Summary:
The main character is a miller, who sometimes acts strangely but is otherwise a goodhearted hardworking honest man. He sometimes keeps the villagers up all night by howling. Finally the villagers decide that the miller has to be committed into a mental hospital, where the hero does not have to spend too much time until he escapes. The miller takes to the woods near his home but there he is constantly harassed by the chief of the police with his posse.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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The House by the Sea (2017)
Plot Summary:
By a little bay near Marseille lies a picturesque villa owned by an old man. His three children have gathered by his side for his last days. It’s time for them to weigh up what they have inherited of their father’s ideals and the community spirit he created in this magical place. The arrival, at a nearby cove, of a group of boat people will throw these moments of reflection into turmoil.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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Boxes (2007)
Plot Summary:
Anna, 50 years old, moves into her new house. Rooms are full of boxes which contain a lot of things and plenty of memories. Anna has lived many lives and her past comes out of these boxes. Her parents surely, but also her children and their fathers, the living and the dead. In this breakneck period of her life, time is running faster and faster and Anna takes a run-up to face the past and try to go towards the future. And, maybe, to manage to still believe in love?.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: semi autobiographical
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The Tragic Burlesque (1995)
Plot Summary:
In a way of protesting for inhuman living conditions and the shortage of medications caused by the disintegration of Yugoslavia and its sanctions, a doctor in a hospital decides to close his clinic for mental illness. His wish is to return the patients to their homes or give them to someone who is willing to accept them temporarily.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 692
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: offbeat, black comedy
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Night Across the Street (2012)
Plot Summary:
A drama centered on an office worker on the verge of retirement who begins to relive both real and imagined memories.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 519
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Chile, France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, realistic, surreal, contemplative, crying
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Harvey (1996)
Plot Summary:
An unlikely hero, Elwood P. Dowd. This mild-mannered-but-eccentric bachelor has, for several years, happily kept company with Harvey, a six-foot-tall rabbit that only he can see. All's well until Elwood's social-climbing sister, Veta, and her teenage daughter, Myrtle Mae, come to live with him and fear his odd behavior will undermine their ambitions. When Elwood disrupts the ladies' first afternoon tea party by introducing wealthy Aunt Ethel Chauvenet to Harvey, Veta sees that something must be done right away. She takes compliant Elwood to the Chumley Rest Home, leaving him in the car while she tells a Dr. Sanderson all about Elwood and Harvey. Sanderson concludes that Veta is the psychotic one and has her carted off to be committed. Meanwhile Elwood is treated with respect and dignity in light of his sister's mental state. When Dr. Chumley, head of the rest home, returns and hears of the case, he draws the opposite conclusion-that Elwood in fact hallucinates.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 411
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: touching, offbeat, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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The Days on Earth Are Flowing (1979)
Plot Summary:
A profoundly empathetic, unpretentious and droll account of a how a swarthy, Hemingway-like sailor upends the droning routines of a nursing home when he checks himself in. Though his subtle interactions with the other residents – including his cantankerous roommate who obviously harbours resentment towards his family for putting him out to seed – the sailor gently whisks up an atmosphere of hope and happiness and allows the movie to deliver its beautifully simple message: that life should be savoured until the bitter end.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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The Wedding Waltz (1988)
Plot Summary:
Viltteri, a balding guy in his thirties living in rural northern Finland, is hopelessly clueless about his new role as a married man and the father of a newborn son. A perfect escape from family responsibilities is having to get his old Hillman Minx repaired and inspected for road-worthiness, with a little help from an eccentric bunch of friends who never seem to have grown up either.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 56 min
Plot tags: road movie, funny, enigmatic, depressing, bleak, humorous, melancholic, ironic, sad, suspenseful
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Unexpected Journey (2017)
Plot Summary:
Lasse is an old racist who has lives in an apartment block filled with a selection of refugees and immigrants. Kamal is a 16-year old boy who's fed up in his life in Finland, and dreams of moving to Nairobi to live with his father. Only problem is that he doesn't have the money to buy the ticket.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: road movie, humorous, psychological, light, feel good, unusual plot structure, contemplative
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Do I Know You? (2007)
Plot Summary:
Grandfather of Ana is clearly experiencing Alzheimer. Family as no choice and make some decisions. This tense situation will change the life of Ana.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 141
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, bleak
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Ginger and Fred (1986)
Plot Summary:
Amelia and Pippo are reunited after several decades to perform their old music-hall act, imitating Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, on a TV variety show.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: sexy, emotional, black comedy, cult classic, sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, surreal, semi serious
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Hammersmith Is Out (1972)
Plot Summary:
The Faust legend retold (loosely) and applied to a mentally disturbed patient in a hospital run by a doctor of dubious sanity himself. The patient (Burton) offers the innocent orderly (Bridges) vast riches if he'll help him escape.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 456
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy
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A Family Upside Down (1978)
Plot Summary:
An elderly married couple find that as their physical and mental health deteriorates, they find themselves dependent more and more upon their grown children.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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How About You... (2007)
Plot Summary:
The story of Ellie, a young woman left in charge of the residential home run by her older sister, over the Christmas period. Whilst most of the residents have left to spend the festive period with their families, four residents, known as 'the hardcore' remain. Their behavior is so terrible that the home faces closure as potential new residents are put off by their appalling ant.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, emotional, realistic
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Toto the Hero (1991)
Plot Summary:
Thomas and Alfred were born around the same time; a fire in the nursery had nurses scrambling to save the newborns. Because he felt that he deserved Alfred's good fortune at being born into a wealthy family, Thomas conceives the idea that he and Alfred were switched at birth, and he can't help seeing that his unhappiness should be Alfred's, from the loss of his sister to his inability to have a relationship with the woman Evelyne. So, as his life is ending, he formulates a plan of revenge against his bitter enemy, his lifetime adversary, the man who stole his existence.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Belgium, France, Germany
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: touching, inspirational, epic, sad, cult classic, sentimental, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, crying
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Reach for Me (2008)
Plot Summary:
Old and bitter, Alvin just wants some peace and quiet in his last days. His wish, however, is not granted when a young, vibrant and ironically full of life Kevin becomes Alvin's hospice roommate. Through this "odd couple" relationship, Alvin learns that its not the minutes in our life, its the moments in your life that matter.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 324
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, psychological, captivating, independent film, semi serious, crying
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Kotch (1971)
Plot Summary:
Joseph Kotcher, retired salesman, walks out on his son and daughter-in-law after their attempts to put him in a retirement home. He tracks down their babysitter, sacked because she is pregnant, and rents a small house nearby. He finds a new purpose in life. Jack Lemmon's first film as director stars his old friend Walter Matthau.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious